Clinton, Sanders close in CT/PA/RI; Trump Headed for Big Wins  —  New Public Policy Polling surveys in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island conducted on behalf of VoteVets.Org Action Fund find the Democratic race for President in those states competitive, while on the Republican side Donald Trump …

Cruz Campaign Vetting Carly for VP  —  Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina as a potential running mate, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned.  —  According to a spokeswoman for Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and one-time presidential candidate is being vetted by Cruz's campaign.

Actor Tim Robbins blames Sanders losses on ‘voter fraud’  —  Actor Tim Robbins is alleging the “election is being stolen” from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders  —  In a tweet Monday afternoon, the actor called out The New York Times and CNN, suggesting the media is tipping …

Jay-Z's not the only one who needs to be nervous about Beyonce, the born-again-black woman with a political mission  —  I never like it when entertainers go all political.  —  The cynic in me believes it's rarely done for genuine reasons but for strictly commercial ones.

Americans Overwhelmingly Engaged in 2016 Election but Tone of Race Is Affecting Voters, New GW Battleground Poll Shows  —  Obama's Approval Rating Turns Positive for First Time in Three Years  —  MEDIA CONTACTS:  —  Jason Shevrin: jshevrin@gwu.edu, 202-994-5631  —  John Brandt: johnbrandt@gwu.edu, 202-994-3199

The future of TV is arriving faster than anyone predicted  —  Late last week, Comcast announced a new program that allows makers of smart TVs and other Internet-based video services to have full access to your cable programming without the need for a set-top box.

Texas father murdered 2-year-old daughter because she interrupted his computer games  —  A North Texas man beat and killed his 2-year-old daughter because she distracted him from his computer games, police said.  —  Anthony Michael Sanders, 31, was charged Friday with capital murder …

Tamir Rice settlement should help educate kids on guns, Cleveland police union president says  —  Eric Heisig, cleveland.com By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — The head of the Cleveland rank-and-file police union says the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice should use money …

Megyn Kelly lands big interview with Trump  —  MORE FROM:  —  Megyn Kelly has landed a big interview with Donald Trump after the warring pair agreed to end their feud.  —  Trump will sit for an in-depth interview on Kelly's special, which airs on Fox on May 17, a source confirmed to Page Six.

VIDEO: Target Welcomes Man To Use Women's Room, Promises To Handle Women's Complaints  —  This video has been going around Facebook all day today, but was apparently uploaded to YouTube on Friday, and shows a man, Andy Park, visiting a Target store in Florida and asking about their bathroom policy.

Rise in CO2 has ‘greened Planet Earth’  —  Carbon dioxide emissions from industrial society have driven a huge growth in trees and other plants.  —  A new study says that if the extra green leaves prompted by rising CO2 levels were laid in a carpet, it would cover twice the continental USA.

Erin Andrews settles peephole lawsuit  —  Television reporter and personality Erin Andrews has settled her lawsuit against a hotel owner and operator that allowed her stalker to secretly record her naked through a door peephole.  —  The terms of the agreement reached Monday morning are confidential.

Kansas Governor Justifies Kicking 15,000 People Off Food Stamps  —  For over five years now, Kansas has served as an economic policy experiment for anti-tax, small-government conservatives.  Their lab work is costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars, crippling public service budgets …

Tom Brady's four-game suspension upheld  —  A federal appeals court has ruled that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve a four-game Deflategate suspension imposed by the NFL, overturning a lower judge and siding with the league in a battle with the NFL Players Association.

9/11 Memorial guards order kids to stop singing National Anthem  —  Two tone-deaf security guards at the 9/11 Memorial got tough with some wide-eyed middle-school kids visiting the city for the first time from their small town in North Carolina — because they sang “The Star Spangled Banner.”

Rape Trees, Dead Migrants and the Consequences of an Open Border  —  Many of the most caring people in the U.S. think they are helping the poor from Latin America by leaving our Southwest border wide open between ports-of-entry, but they are not.  Several of the transnational criminal organizations …

Poll Documents:  —  Press Release: Poll Shows Turmoil, Possible Defections, Among GOP Voters  —  Statement of Methodology: This survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted between April 20 and April 24, 2016, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults 18 years of age or older …

Yes, China has won big from U.S. trade  —  America's middle class is deeply concerned about jobs, pay and their future, and many of them are blaming China.  —  In the U.S., 43% of voters believe trade with other countries is a bad thing, according to the Pew Research Center.  It's not that hard to understand why.

How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church  —  Eh Wah had been on the road for 12 hours when he saw the flashing lights in his rear-view mirror.  —  The 40-year-old Texas man, a refugee from Burma who became a U.S. citizen more than a decade ago, was heading home to Dallas to check on his family.